Vintage Trials: Recent Comments

Comment on HOW TO, THE ART OF CHANGING TIRES

2010-03-09T23:39:12Z

I was always told to start and finish at the valve, as this way you can push the valve in so that the tube does not get pinched by the levers as you ease that last hard bit over the rim. Enjoy all your articles, keep the blog going. All the best from the UK.

Comment on ITS ALL VERY PRETTY, BUT.......

2010-03-08T04:04:06Z

Good evening, Tony.

I haven't had the pleasure of seeing you at TEAM Arizona for over a year now, and was curious as to your current status. I truly enjoyed reading your "Tails of Woe" section. Having had labs (Syrinx and Chrissy) in the past, I am quite familiar with the affection that comes with the priviledge of owning them. Had I known that you also enjoyed hunting, I would have invited you out to see my Braque du Bourbonnais work his magic on quail and ducks. He is one of those European "versatile" breeds. As it is, I'm still in the process of restoring my wife's old '74 TY-250, with plans of riding a vintage trial or two, as time allows. With best wishes and hopes that all is well with you, I bid you a good night.

Comment on HOW TO, THE ART OF CHANGING TIRES

2010-02-25T11:24:41Z

Hi Tony
Good article, I would (personnally) add a couple of small points.
I always keep the value nut, but have it very loose.
Might be worth mentioning elongating the valve hole to indicte that the tyre is creeping.

Comment on HOW TO, THE ART OF CHANGING TIRES

2010-02-24T08:38:51Z

Thanks for such a nice blog post....i was searching for something like that.

Comment on HOW TO, THE ART OF CHANGING TIRES

2010-02-24T08:37:50Z

Thats great, I never knew before this blog.

Comment on FUN IN THE SUN

2010-02-20T05:48:47Z

Would be nice to hear some of your tales of traveling the cicuit with the dogs and the problems it involves.Thanks look forward to reading the tails of woe.

Comment on AND THE WINNER IS.........

2010-02-08T16:17:27Z

Dear Tony,
I was actually surfin the net in the hope of finding something related to Tony Davis and his Late brother Malcolm, and somehow discovered this site. in the index of the Ask search engine your site mention the two boys, but i couldnt see any reference to them in the articles. Perhaps i missed it, or its not there. Sorry to be dim but could you explain where the link is? Cheers, Dave Jones Gloucester. Ps if you come back ill tell you why im interested in them.

Comment on HISSY FIT !

2010-02-08T03:59:52Z

Har, har! We're in the same shape here in Idaho. Nothing to do but work and ski! Our '84 Windcruiser is axle-deep in snow in our back yard, 200 feet from the nearest plowed road and me with my shovel. I figure at an hour a day, I'll have it free by the 15th of March -- if
El Nino doesn't trick us and lay down a couple more feet of wet between now and then!

Comment on FAVORITE TRIALS

2010-02-08T03:53:53Z

Bravo, Tony, on your retrospective. From your photos, clearly you Brits back then were a far more gentlemenly lot than we Hoosier MX hillbillys who blitzed the rolling pasture lands and forests of Southern Indiana in the early '70s. Makes me sentimental for those old days when Sunoco 260 sold for 58 cents a gallon and my teenaged buddies and I rode after school every day until well after dusk, plonking home through the woods in the dark. Cheers and good luck to all in 2010! See ya'll on the AHRMA trials circuit!

Comment on A PREVIEW OF THE 2010 SEASON

2010-01-27T06:36:30Z

Also looking forward to the Toeele event. Never been there before. Might be doing the Le Mans start in RR for the little Honda Twins, as I have 2 Honda SL 175s. Steamboat last year was great! - only time in my life I felt like Steve Mc Queen riding the Honda Twin on the grass track. Afterwards, I went to congratulate a BSA 250 rider in the pits, who had finally caught me and overtook near the end of our moto, and he said the best thing I have ever heard in my life: " I couldn't pass you!" Cheers, JBAC.